Comments on the article ‘Thermodynamics of Na-based liquid binary alloys’

ABSTRACT

The discrepancy between results presented in the article ‘Thermodynamics of Na-based liquid binary alloys’ and the nature of such quantities as the heat of mixing and entropy of mixing as well as the discrepancy between results obtained and their interpretation in this paper are discussed. It is concluded that the model pseudopotential used in the work above is not useful for calculating the thermodynamic properties of liquid metal alloys as it is declared by authors of the aforementioned paper.

KEYWORDS:

• Liquid binary metal alloy
• heat of mixing
• entropy of mixing
• thermodynamic perturbation theory
• variational method
• pseudopotential

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